List of people associated with World War I (original) (raw)
See: World War I
Australia
(Entered the War on: August 4, 1914)
- William Throsby Bridges (1861-1915) Commander, Australian Imperial Force, Australian 1st Division
- Henry George Chauvel (1865-1945), Commander, Desert Mounted Corps
- Sir Talbot Hobbs, (1864-1938), Commander, Australian 5th Division
- Billy Hughes, (1862-1952), Prime Minister
- Sir John Monash, (1865-1931), Commander, Australian 3rd Division, Australian Corps
- Sir Keith Murdoch, (1885-1952), War reporter
- Sir Charles Rosenthal, (1875-1954), Commander, Australian 2nd Division
Austria-Hungary
(Entered the War on:
Royalty
- Archduke Franz Ferdinand, (1863-1914), heir to the throne whose murder brought on the war.
- Emperor Franz Josef, (1830-1916)
- Emperor Karl, (1887-1922)
- Empress Zita (1892-1989)
Military Leaders
- Franz Conrad von H�tzendorff, (1852-1925), Chief of Staff (1906-1911, 1912-1917)
- Artur Arz von Straussenburg, (1857-1935), Chief of Staff (1917-1918)
- Oskar Potiorek, (1853-1933), General
Politicians
- Friedrich Adler, Austrian Social Democratic leader
- Victor Adler, Austrian Social Democratic leader
- Count Julius Andrassy the Younger (1860-1929), Foreign Minister (1918)
- Count Leopold von Berchtold, (1863-1942), Foreign Minister (1912-1915)
- Baron Istvan Burian, (1851-1922), Foreign Minister (1915-1916, 1918), Finance Minister (1916-1918)
- Count Heinrich von Clam-Martinitz (1863-1932), Minister-President of Austria (1916-1917)
- Count Ottokar Czernin, (1872-1932), Foreign Minister (1916-1918)
- Count Moric Esterhazy (1881-1960), Minister-President of Hungary (1917)
- Ernst Ritter Seidler von Feuchtenegg (1862-1931), Minister-President of Austria (1917-1918)
- Baron Max Hussarek von Heinlein (1865-1935), Minister-President of Austria (1918)
- Count Michael Karolyi (1875-1955), Hungarian Independence Party leader and Minister-President (1918)
- Ernst von Koerber (1850-1919), Minister-President of Austria (1916)
- Heinrich Lammasch (1853-1920), Minister-President of Austria (1918)
- Karl Renner, (1870-1950), Austrian Social Democratic leader, and later Chancellor
- Count Karl von St�rgkh (1859-1916), Minister-President of Austria (1911-1916)
- Count Istvan Tisza (1861-1918), Minister-President of Hungary (1913-1917)
- Sandor Wekerle (1848-1921), Minister-President of Hungary (1917-1918)
Belgium
(Entered the War on:
- King Albert I, (1875-1934)
- Baron Charles de Broqueville, (1860-1940), Prime Minister
- Victor Deguise, (1855-1922), General
- Gerard Leman, (1851-1920), General
- Gabrielle Petit, (1893-1916), Executed Spy
Bulgaria
(Entered the War on:
Royalty
Politicians
- Alexander Malinov, (1867-1938), Prime Minister (1908-1911, 1918)
- Vasil Radoslavov, (1854-1929), Prime Minister
- Alexander Stamboliski, (1879-1923), anti-monarchist
- Nikola Zhekov, (1864-1949), Commander-in-Chief
Canada
(Entered the War on:
- Harry Banks, supposed victim of German crucifixion
- Billy Bishop, (1884-1956), ace credited with 72 victories
- Sir Robert Borden, (1854-1937), Prime Minister (1911-1920)
- Henri Bourassa, (1868-1952), led French Canadian opposition to conscription
- Sir Arthur Currie, (1875-1933), Commander, Canadian Forces
- Sir Sam Hughes, (1853-1921), Minister of Militia and Defense
- John McCrae, (1872-1918), doctor and poet, author of In Flanders' Fields
- Henry Norwest (1884-1918), one of the most famous snipers in World War I
- Francis Pegahmagabow (1891-1952), the most highly decorated aboriginal Canadian soldier of World War I
- Tommy Ricketts, (1901-1967), at age 17, he was the youngest soldier to ever receive the Victoria Cross
- Sir Richard Turner, (1871-1948), Chief of Canadian General Staff
France
(Entered the War on:
Military Leaders
- Edouard de Castelnau, (1851-1944), General
- Auguste Dubail, (1851-1934), General
- Louis Franchet d'Esperey, (1856-1942), Marshall
- Ferdinand Foch, (1851-1929), General and Supreme Allied Commander
- Joseph Gallieni, (1849-1916), General
- Joseph Jacques C�saire Joffre, (1852-1931), Commander-in-Chief
- Hubert Lyautey, (1854-1934), War Minister
- Charles Mangin, (1866-1925), General
- Michael Maunoury, (1847-1923), General
- Robert Georges Nivelle, (1856-1924), Commander-in-Chief
- Henri Philippe P�tain, (1856-1951), Commander-in-Chief
- Maurice Sarrail, (1856-1929), General
Politicians
- Aristide Briand, (1862-1932), Prime Minister (1909-11, 1913, 1915-17, 1921-22, 1925-26, 1929)
- Joseph Caillaux, (1863-1944), Prime Minister (June 1911 - January 1912), pacifist
- Georges Clemenceau, (1841-1929), Prime Minister (1917-1920)
- Th�ophile Delcass�, (1852-1923), Foreign Minister (1914-1915)
- Gaston Doumergue,
- Jean Jaures, (1859-1914), Socialist party leader, pacifist
- Alexandre Millerand, (1859-1943), Minster of War (1912-13, 1914-15)
- Paul Painlev�, (1863-1933), Prime Minister (September 1917 - November 1917)
- Stephen Pichon,
- Raymond Poincar�, (1860-1934), President (1913-1920)
- Alexandre Ribot, (1842-1923), Prime Minister (March 1917 - September 1917)
- Ren� Viviani, (1862-1925), Prime Minister (1914-1915)
Germany
(Entered the War on:
Monarch
- Emperor Wilhem II
Military Leaders
- Erich von Falkenhayn
- Hermann von Fran�ois
- Wilhelm Groener
- Paul von Hindenburg, (1847-1934), general, president
- Admiral Franz von Hipper, Commander, High Seas Fleet
- Max Hoffmann
- Erich Ludendorff, general
- Helmuth von Moltke, (1800-1891), German soldier
- Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria
- Otto Liman von Sanders, (1855-1929), General
- Alfred von Schlieffen, (1833-1913), Pre-war Chief of General Staff
- Alfred von Tirpitz, (1849-1930), Naval Minister
- Crown Prince Wilhelm of Prussia
Political Leaders
- Prince Maximilian of Baden (1867-1929), Imperial Chancellor (1918)
- Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, Imperial Chancellor (1909-1917)
- Prince Bernhard von B�low, former Imperial Chancellor (1900-1909), Ambassador to Italy (1914-1915), rival
- Friedrich Ebert, (1871-1925), Social Democratic leader, Imperial Chancellor (1918), later First President of the Weimar Republic
- Matthias Erzberger, leader of the left wing of the Catholic Centre Party
- Count Georg von Hertling, Imperial Chancellor (1917-1918)
- Richard von K�hlmann, Foreign Secretary (1917-1918)
- Georg Michaelis, Imperial Chancellor (1917)
- Gottlieb von Jagow, Foreign Secretary (1913-1916)
- Philipp Scheidemann, Social Democratic Leader, later first Chancellor of the Weimar Republic (1919)
- Gustav Stresemann, (1878-1929), leader of the imperialist wing of the National Liberal Party, later a major statesman of the Weimar Republic
- Arthur Zimmermann, Foreign Secretary (1916-1917)
Others
- Anthony Fokker, (1890 - 1939), Aircraft builder
- Manfred von Richthofen, (1892-1918), fighter ace
Greece
(Entered the War on:
- King Constantine I
- King Alexander
- Joannis Metaxas, (1871-1941), military dictator
- Eleutherios Venizelos, prime minister
Italy
(Entered the War on:
- Pietro Cadorna
- Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, (1869-1947)
- Emilio Lussu, (1890-1975), Italian novelist
- Antonio Salandra
- Giovanni Giolitti
- Baron Sidney Sonnino
- Vittorio Orlando
- Luigi Boselli
- Benito Mussolini, (1883-1945), Il Duce
Japan
(Entered the War on:
- Emperor Yoshihito
- Mitsuomi Kamio
- Marquess Shigenobu Okuma, prime minister (1914-1916)
- Count Masatake Terauchi, prime minister (1916-1918)
- Takashi Hara, (1918-1921)
Netherlands
(Neutral Country)
- Jelles Troelstra
- Mata Hari, spy
- Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, (1880-1962), Queen
New Zealand
(Entered the War on:
- Sir James Allen, Minister of Defence
- Bernard Freyberg, (1889-1963), Highly decorated solider
- William Massey, Prime Minister
- Sir Andrew Russell, General
Ottoman Empire
(Entered the War on:
- Kemal Atat�rk, (1881-1938), Turkish leader
- Sultan Mehmed V
- Sultan Mehmed VI
- Enver Pasha, Minister of War
- Said Halim Pasha, Grand Vizier
- Talaat Pasha, Minister of Interior
Romania
(Entered the War on:
- Alexandru Averescu
- Ion Bratianu
- Carol I
- Ferdinand I, (1865-1927), King of Romania (1924-1927)
- Constantine Prezan
Russia
(Entered the War on:
Monarchs
- Emperor Nicholas II, (1868-1918)
- Empress Alexandra, (1872-1918)
Military Leaders
- Mikhail Alekseev
- Aleksei Brusilov
- Yuri Danilov
- Anton Denikin
- Alexander Kolchak, Admiral
- Lavr Georgevich Kornilov, (1870-1918), Russian general
- Alexei Nikolajevich Kuropatkin
- Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolayevich
- Paul von Rennenkampf
- Alexander Samsonov
- Peter Wrangel
- Nikolai Yudenich
Political Leaders and others
- Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, (1888-1938), Bolshevik Leader
- Victor Chernov, Socialist Revolutionary Leader
- Ivan Goremykin, Prime Minister (1914-1916)
- Alexander Guchkov, Octobrist leader
- Lev Kamenev
- Aleksandr Kerensky, (1881-1970), second head of the Russian Provisional Government, 1917
- Alexandra Kollontai, Bolshevik Leader
- Alexander Krivoshein, Minister of Agriculture
- Vladimir Lenin, (1870-1924), Bolshevik leader
- Prince Georgy Yevgenyevich Lvov, first Head of the Provisional Government (1917)
- Nikolai Maklakov, Minister of the Interior
- Julius Martov, Menshevik Leader
- Pavel Miliukov, Kadet leader
- Alexander Protopopov, Minister of the Interior
- Vladimir Purishkevich, right wing political leader, assassin of Rasputin
- Grigori Rasputin, (1872-1919), friar, adventurer, mystic wonder-worker
- Sergei Sazonov, Foreign Minister (1910-1916)
- Joseph Stalin, (1879-1953), (a pseudonym) - Soviet leader
- Boris St�rmer, Prime Minister (1916)
- Alexander Trepov, Prime Minister (1916)
- Leon Trotsky, (1879-1940), Bolshevik leader
- Prince Felix Yusupov, murderer of Rasputin
- Grigory Zinoviev, (1883-1936), Russian Bolshevik
Serbia
(Entered the War on:
- King Peter I, (1844-1921), Serbian monarch
- Crown Prince Alexander, (1888-1934), Serbian monarch
- Dragutin Dimitrijevic, (1877-1917), founder and leader of Black Hand society
- Zivojin Misic, (1855-1921), Field Marshal
- Nikola Pasic, (1845-1926), Prime Minister
- Gavrilo Princip, (1894-1918), the Serbian nationalist who assassinated Franz Ferdinand of Austria
- Radomir Putnik, (1847-1917), Chief of General Staff
- Peter Vasic, (1862-1931), Colonel
- Bosa Yankovich, General
South Africa
(Entered the War on:
- Andrew Beauchamp-Proctor, (1894-1921),Fighter Pilot
- Louis Botha, (? - 1919), Prime Minister
- Sir Henry Lukin, (1860-1925), General
- Jan Smuts, (1870-1950), Prime Minister
- Sir Jacob Louis Van Deventer, (1874-1922), General
United Kingdom
(Entered the War on:
Royalty
Military Leaders
- Edmund Allenby, (1861-1936), British soldier
- David Beatty, (1871-1936), admiral
- Julian Byng, (1862-1935), general
- John Fisher, (1841-1920), admiral
- John French, Commander of the BEF (1914-1915)
- Hubert Gough, general
- Douglas Haig, (1861-1928), Commander of the BEF (1915-1918)
- John Jellicoe, (1859-1935), admiral
- Horatio Kitchener, (1850-1916), former general, Secretary of State for War
- Hubert Plumer, (1857-1932), field marshall
- Sir William Robertson, (1860-1933), Chief of Imperial General Staff
- Sir Henry Wilson,
Political Leaders
- Herbert Asquith, Prime Minister (1908-1916)
- Arthur Balfour, (1848-1930), Foreign Secretary
- Sir Roger Casement, Irish independence leader
- Winston Churchill, (1911-1915), Prime Minister from 1940
- Lord Curzon, (1859-1925), Unionist politician
- John Dillon, Irish Home Rule leader
- Sir Edward Grey, Foreign Secretary
- Andrew Bonar Law, (1858-1923), Unionist Party leader
- David Lloyd George, (1916-1922), politician
- Lord Milner, politician
- John Redmond, (1856-1918), Irish Home Rule leader
Others
- T. E. Lawrence, (1888-1935), led the Arab revolt
- Wilfred Owen, (1893-1918), English poet
- W. H. R. Rivers, (1864-1922), Psychiatrist
United States of America
(Entered the War on:
- William Jennings Bryan, (1860-1925), Secretary of State
- Ernest Hemingway, (1899-1961), author of For Whom the Bell Tolls, A Farewell to Arms, and ''The Sun Also Rises'
- Edward House, advisor to President Wilson
- Charles Evans Hughes, (1862-1948), Republican, 1907-1910
- Field E. Kindley, (1895-1920), Ace
- Robert Lansing, (1864-1928), Secretary of State
- John Pershing, (1860-1948), commander of the AEF
- Eddie Rickenbacker, (1890-1973), Ace
- Woodrow Wilson, (1856-1924), 28th (1913-1921) President
- Leonard Wood, General
- Sgt. Alvin York, highly decorated war hero